Quotes by Authors - Page 517

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.
Criss Jami
Dementia was like a truth serum.
Amy Tan
Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.
Jordan Stratford
Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution.
Steven Pinker
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
James Allen
Tomorrow I have to break Clipper’s heart. Really bust it open. - Tea
Jamie Scallion
Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
Johnny Rich
The proper way is lost to me; my compass spins. I therefore give my entire attention to those works that seem to me most incorruptible: the application of heat, the proportion of seasoning, the arrangement of a plate. When robbed of all pretensions and aspirations, with no proper home nor any knowledge of what discord tomorrow brings, I still may have a pocketful of dignity. The Roman pomp and raiment have fallen away, and I see at last the glory of washed feet and shared bread.
Eli Brown
Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it’s you doing it.
Israelmore Ayivor
She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.
Meg Howrey
Glasses are for people that sips instead of drinks.
Kai Starr
Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.
Debasish Mridha
Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.
Orrin Woodward
No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.
Beau Taplin
A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.
Moonshine Noire
The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.
Lorii Myers
When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.
Steven Magee
What would you do if you were courageous?
Julie Connor
She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same.
Nikki Rowe
It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.
Kathryn Craft
Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up on the black lava sand of the Aegean shore. As with my previous loves, volcanic in nature. Almost destructive before it started.
Melody Lee
Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price—death of the individual.
Richard J. Borden
Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.
Shannon L. Alder
when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need
Ankur singh yadav
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
Sherry Turkle
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.
Margaret Atwood
There was no such thing as destiny, and no such thing as prophecy; there was only matter slamming into other matter like two toy trucks in the hands of a child.
C. Robert Cargill
The news networks and the local TV stations all led with the same footage. An obviously moved, very pretty young woman with blond hair and alert blue eyes looking up. Eyes widening. Stumbling a little as she pushed back her chair and went around the table.Shaky cameras turning too fast, following her as she ran to a boy at the back of the room who pushed through the press of people to reach her.The embrace.The kiss that went on for a very long time.
Michael Grant
If you want to get rich on the outside, then become rich on the inside first. You will reap on the outside what you sow on the inside.
Jeanette Coron
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
Matthew Knisely
When DEATH stares in our faces..We can just 'stare' back at it!'All' falls flat in the deathly moments! No explanations, no reasons, no justifications sound good enough!! Acceptance alone stands out as the truth!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
Cixin Liu
It does not matter where you are—from this very moment on you choose the direction of your life.
Toni Sorenson
Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Never see yourself as a disappointment or failure just because you were fired
Sunday Adelaja
Feel happy and joyful like a fresh blooming spring flower.
Debasish Mridha
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Jane Austen
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
Julianna Baggott
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!
Tanya Masse
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
Jodi Picoult
I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.
Timothy Hallinan
...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, interests and opinions. You try to find some way to balance or reconcile or compromise those interests, or at least a majority of them. You follow a set of rules, enshrined in a constitution or in custom, to help you reach these compromises in a way everybody considers legitimate.The downside of politics is that people never really get everything they want. It’s messy, limited and no issue is ever really settled. Politics is a muddled activity in which people have to recognize restraints and settle for less than they want. Disappointment is normal.But that’s sort of the beauty of politics, too. It involves an endless conversation in which we learn about other people and see things from their vantage point and try to balance their needs against our own. Plus, it’s better than the alternative: rule by some authoritarian tyrant who tries to govern by clobbering everyone in his way....
David Brooks
I was downstairs, reading."" Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared."Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and soft-looking outside the window, all the stars out. You have just on light on, you know, and it seems to pour onto the page. Makes the book seem better. You are this little island, just up alone with a book. And you heard the night sounds of the house...It's so interesting to me, that sound. Time. The measure of it.
Elizabeth Berg
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
Manuel Rivas
A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings
Bryant McGill
It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.
E.O. Higgins
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.
Jeanette Winterson
All I need is you.
Rachel Harris
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
Chuck Palahniuk
It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.
David Jeremiah
Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.
Davis Miller
Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.
Cassandra Clare
I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.
Will Advise
Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.
Richie Norton
The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.
Annie Dillard
I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.
Ian McEwan
You're a good man, Hunter.
Lisa Kessler